Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>>> hmm .... how many books do you have? :)
>> That's not how you should have asked it :-) You should have said yes
>> first and then looked for someone to type the bib file if Hans really
>> has too much books ;-) Or you could distribute the task ...
>
> Really, we (=I) should move away from bibtex.
>
> What I really want is a module that reads XML databases by using lua
> xpath for item extraction (inline in mkiv, with a standalone lua script
> in mkii), along with a script to convert legacy bibtex databases into
> XML databases.
>
> I have Mods in mind for the database format.
we can discuss that in mode detail as it makes a nice example of using
the xml features in mkiv
if we have the database format decided, i can make a basic framework and
you/others can define the bib styles
of course this is mkiv only
Hans
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